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• Commented on Keith Campbell Sends a Postcard from Germany...
  Thank you Bob and Keith (reunion!) for this absolutely mad, brilliant post. I feel like such a... a..Schwächling? for ever imagining my weekly task to make a catchy, must-buy cover was a challenge. If this is the marketplace, you are...
• Commented on More "inspired" covers
  inspired by Stephen Sagmeister's stuff, no? http://www.sagmeister.com/work4.html...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  Despite the fact that for years we could see a Roger Black design-factory coming like balls on a tall dog, we all have our panties in a twist seeing his dark vision actualized. RB the new Godzilla of publishing! But...
• Commented on The Village Voice Queer Issue Cover
  oh before I forget and before I slink back into silence for a while, I do wish to point out that I absolutely respect John Dixon, the art director at The Village Voice and though my comment pertains exclusively to...
• Commented on The Village Voice Queer Issue Cover
  I stand fully corrected on the minus IQ points dig then. They're obviously highly evolved narcissists, not dumb ones by any stretch. They know they're being used for myriad purposes and they're fine with it cuz they know their time...
• Commented on The Village Voice Queer Issue Cover
  There seems to be this mini trend towards reckless lowbrow editorializing shock-draw that both this magazine's issue here, and Outside recently (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/17/lance-armstrong-steamed-over-photoshopped-outside-magazine-cover/) has engaged in. I'm not sure how it sits with me, personally as a reader of both pubs....
• Commented on iPad: What's Your Review?
  You might have seen this, you might not have. Worth looking into if you have the time. download the PDF. Pretty interesting. http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/ from the site: "This report is based on usability studies with real users, reporting how they actually...
• Commented on No Makeup, No Retouching? No, Really?
  Oh there’s retouching going on there, sure as this bra I’m wearing is padded. I'm glad you brought this up since it's been floating around the ole Facebook for a while with the zeal of the second coming of Christ....
• Commented on Happy Earth Day! The Greatest Environmental Magazine Covers
  Sucks we can't post images as responses. but here's what i'm talking about: http://samababy.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/madonna-vanity-fair-2.jpg Sure, it's admittedly a BARELY green cover of VF's Madonna, but it constitutes attractive design, if not simply strong photo direction from I assume Annie L...
• Commented on Happy Earth Day! The Greatest Environmental Magazine Covers
  Cool! Not sure i agree with "greatest" on some of these but I get it. VF did a cool cover a ways back with tons of celebrities gathered on the cover for it's "green" issue which they no longer do...
• Posted Rare Specimen No.9: Don't Run In Socks to Grids
  I just loves me some good old school illustration gorgeousness. And there's no other illustrator who makes my toes curl quite like Milton Glaser. Therefore, I found myself sifting through my classical record albums over the weekend (silence those guffaws,...
• Posted Associate Art Director to Job Board
  Women's Health is looking immediately for a superhero talent-level designer who brings enthusiasm, obsessive compulsive attention to detail, brilliant ideas and the pride to take on the ownership of their workload and really polish their pages to a fine shine,...
• Commented on The Fortune 500 cover legacy
  sorry, spelled him wrong: Eric Nitsche....
• Commented on The Fortune 500 cover legacy
  These make me weak with joy. This first cover is in the vein of the gorgeous "Atoms for Peace" General Dynamics annual reports that Erik Nische did in the 50s. Bob, did he ever do a Fortune Cover? I'll be...
• Posted Rare Specimen No 6 <br/>Folks who act on their stupid, brilliant weed-infused day dreams to Grids
  Once I hit the beaches of Mexico, I'll finally possess the time required to fully obsess over the mad genius of this precious little paperback limited edition of If Drawings Were Photographs by Rob Matthews and Tom Edwards. A gentle...
• Commented on "The Cipriani's Experience"
  I like how, given my fondness for 2.5 hour lunches, I managed NOT to be on this committee, instead somehow raised my hand for the "I"ll-try-to- rewrite-the entire-SPD-constitution" committee which doesn't include 6 varietals of wine nor Bellinis nor even...
• Commented on Celebrating 'On Language'
  hands down my favorite page to flip right to, each week. always a surprise and always breathtakingly creative. Can't wait to get to that exhibit....
• Commented on Illustration Magazine: Great Resource and Inspiration
  SO beautiful! Damn. I'm all over this archive....
• Posted Workshopaholics Unanimous: Sahre, Victore, Wilker to Grids
  From their deliciously incoherent website, sahrevictorewilker.com this just in:"Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker will conduct two intensive, 6-day (and night) graphic design workshops in the summer of 2010, for graphic design students and professionals around the world, who...
• Posted Easy Inspiration to Grids
  I'm finding I'm spending an inordinate amount of totally not-free time ogling the AIGA collections for much needed (hell, save-my-job-needed) inspiration for feature design. Have at it. Your boss will not likely thank you, but you'll be damn thankful....
• Commented on Rare Specimen No. 5 <br/> Blue Note LP Covers
  Awwww YEAH. I vividly recall the gorgeous BlueNote inspired Details magazine spreads of yore that Mr. Newman specialized in paying homage to, back in the not-so-distant day. First person to post a shot of one of them wins a big...
• Commented on Rare Specimen No. 4<br/>Flickr Flow
  I enjoyed realizing that, in listening to Gospel, those subtle mentions of men's asses were not my imagination. And so white!...
• Commented on Face-Off: Tina Fey Covers
  I vote Esquire. less ham-fisted, and she looks smokin....
• Commented on Overzealous with Photoshop?
  I remember watching the Oscars and while Ryan Seacrest was interviewing Tina, her scar was startlingly visible and I thought to myself, "whoa, did she lose a fight with a curling iron or what the hell?" and that must be...
• Commented on Magazines Go To The Movies
  I think i may've been an intern around the time that last EW one was created! sigh. related thought: We all probably super dig on the intro and outro titling sequences that are steadily getting more and more creative and...
• Posted Mommy, My Font Hurts to Grids
  Don't strain your eyeballs while they involuntarily roll to the back of your brain, but Helvetica has insinuated itself into my Saturday morning bake-a-thon and here's the reason why. Enjoy this painfully cute little blog entry while you're salivating. I...
• Commented on Behind the Design... Rihanna
  N to the K. NO WAY. killing me softly. beautiful work. --a from the d...
• Commented on Pretty Distraction Before Morning Meeting
  and she's a killer illustrator/designer too. http://jessicahische.com...
• Posted Pretty Distraction Before Morning Meeting to Grids
  Sigh. Some people.... Jessica Hische is on my sh*t list this am for being so bloody talented. See her Daily Drop Cap: An Illustrative Initial Every Day for a little pick-me-up and to, as she would say "beautify" your blog...
• Posted Best Books Ever! (Part 6!) to Grids
  As promised, compelling submissions from artists and design aficionado friends of SPD... who probably spend a good portion of their incomes on books that ought to make our list. Inspiration from some unique sources follow....